Word: tabloid
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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London's Daily Mirror was agape. Titling him the "Duke of Savvy," the tabloid editorialized: "This man Philip is talking horse sense." The speech at the Foreign Press Association was straight from the horse's mouth anyway, since the monarchy got most of the royal husband's attention. "It has to be all things to all persons," he confessed. "Of course, it cannot do this when it comes to being all things to traditionalists and iconoclasts. But if you are very cunning you get as far away from extremists as you possibly can because they kick harder...
...Hearst's tabloid Mirror, first casualty of the strike, released figures that added up to a graphic explanation of how the long, enforced silence had hastened the paper's end. The Mirror was already in distressing shape when the strike began; its last profit...
Inside News, a flamboyant tabloid with a prurient fixture of horror ("He Tickled Her to Death") and sex, told its readers that "The Undergrads Are Oversexed" at Harvard and other Ivy schools. The current number of Whisper, a slick covered bi-monthly what promises "The Stories Behind the Headlines," Harries a lengthy account of "Harvard's Special Night course...
With typical tolerance, Bombay supports the left-wing tabloid Blitz, which recently published pictures to "prove" that Lee Oswald did not shoot President John Kennedy, and also the right-wing tabloid Current, which flays Nehru and his nonalignment policies. Even Bombay's teenagers have a magazine that features Elvis Presley, twist instructions, and such articles as "Are Kissing Dates Dangerous?" Bombay is headquarters for the nation's movie industry, which turns out some 300 feature-length films a year. A recent and elaborate movie wedding in Bombay drew 10,000 guests, but none of them were considered...
Captain Joseph Medill Patterson, founder of the New York Daily News, had a sure instinct for the reading tastes of subway riders (he was one), and he built his tabloid into the biggest and most prosperous daily in the U.S. Some detractors say the News got there by peddling only the most marketable wares-crime, sex, sob stuff and baby pictures-with professional skill. But even the sober New York Times could take lessons from the News's equally professional ability to cut the "important but dull" story down to size. The News reader gets just about everything...